error uploading jpgs

[Mike Smith]

Originally Posted by Jess Ting

Hi Mike. I'm trying to post photos of a bass. When I click the upload button I get the error msg "Error 500 - Internal server error".

Any idea what I am doing wrong?

Thanks.

Jess Ting

I've received this response before and I'm not exactly sure as to why at the moment. I will look into it again and see if anything looks out of the ordinary. For 99.9% of users (including myself) uploading/attaching images has always worked.

I'll post back if I find anything new, and hopefully a fix.

Originally Posted by Thomas Erickson

It really is more functional to just host your photos someplace else, all together, and then link to them when you want to post on a forum or whatever. Flickr is nice, but if you use it a lot it costs like $20 a year; Picasa (Google's service) is free I think, but probably has some other limitations. Either one is easy to use and then you have control over your photos.

Also, depending on what software you use to manage photos on your computer, you can often upload right to these services from that software. I use iPhoto (in macOS) for my day-to-day photo stuff and it works great for this.

I agree that hosting your images on an online service is probably your best bet, especially if you want to be able to manage/access the image in any other way in the future. I offer the upload attachments feature for those who don't necessarily want their pictures (or mp3s and other media) hosted by other services for whatever reason, which I respect.